photo outtakes

Welcome to another round up of photo outtakes! It's been a couple months since I posted outtakes, but that doesn't mean that I don't have any new ones. I think that it's really important to discuss the fact that I take a ton of photos to get a few gems. Also, while I keep improving my skills, I still make a lot of mistakes.

 Overexposed background on a shot that wasn't worth saving anyway.

Blurry ducks in direct sunlight.

So boring.

Everything is blurry.

The inevitable auto focus fail for a shot of a little sparrow.

Blurry tour guide at Miller because the shutter speed was way too slow. Her eyes look quite creepy.

First of a set of shots to capture the bee. I did get some much better ones.

The kid walked into the shot at the last second.

First shot of the band at this concert. Thankfully things got better from here.

I was trying to capture the crowd at this outdoor concert. I have several shots that all look exactly like this one. Epic fail.

 

Don't be afraid to share your outtakes every once in a while. It makes everyone feel better.

photo outtakes

Welcome to another round up of photo outtakes! I think that it's really important to discuss the fact that I take a ton of photos to get a few gems. Also, while I keep improving my skills, I still make a lot of mistakes.

 The theme of this photo outtakes post is blurry. I'm starting with a blurry kitty. Everyone who photographs kitties has a few a lot of these shots.

The inevitable auto focus fail of a little duck at the zoo. Thankfully I did get some much better shots of this guy.

It's not great that the leaf on the left is out of focus, but the bigger issue is that the center stem is also out of focus.

The orange is blown out, and the composition is too busy. If I wanted to save this shot, I would crop just the bottom right corner, making that one bunch the focal, and then work on the highlights.

The background is blurred nicely. Unfortunately so is the foreground.

The leaves aren't in focus, and this composition is way too busy anyway. I've gotten some much better close up shots of new plant buds this spring.

Blurry elephant feet.

Another blurry kitty shot.

After taking this picture, I decided that I could make a much better shot if I got right up close to the book.

I thought that this reflection might make for a cool shot. It didn't. I still like the lighting on the tree. And no, it did not snow too recently. I took this picture a month and a half ago (still ridiculously late to be photographing snow).

I told you that blurry was the theme of this outtakes post.

The lighting here is pretty harsh. Just as well, right? This guy is a little creepy.

 

Don't be afraid to share your outtakes every once in a while. It makes everyone feel better.

photo outtakes

Welcome to another round up of photo outtakes! I think that it's really important to discuss the fact that I take a ton of photos to get a few gems. Also, while I keep improving my skills, I still make a lot of mistakes.

 The inevitable auto focus fail.

This is a cool idea, but my execution was poor, largely because of the lamp.

This is what happens when I shoot long exposures in shutter priority mode and then forget to flip back to program before I shoot something else.

Angle fail. I was trying to figure out how to get the entire roof in one shot, but clearly this wasn't the best way to accomplish it.

I took this shot during my winter antiques store excursion. I don't even know. The striped glasses are cute, but this shot is so boring.

There were lots of fish swimming in the water right around the Hoover Dam, which we visited during our recent Vegas trip. Unfortunately you can't see any of them in my pictures.

You can see mountains from the Vegas strip. Except that you can't see them in this shot. I can do a fair amount of post process correction to expose them, but this shot is still pretty bright.

Total overexposure.

This shot would have been kind of neat if the words weren't upside down.

Weird angle. Who wants to look at dirty snow anyway?

Don't be afraid to share your outtakes every once in a while. It makes everyone feel better.

photo outtakes

Welcome to another round up of photo outtakes! I think that it's really important to discuss the fact that I take a ton of photos to get a few gems. Also, while I keep improving my skills, I still make a lot of mistakes.

 I really love the fuel sign, but this picture is pretty boring.

The inevitable auto focus fail.

The inevitable blurry kitty, although this shot still makes me laugh.

This shot isn't just an auto focus fail. It's a big blurry mess. Thankfully I did get a shot of these plants that I really did like.

Dizzying angle.

Totally shadowed. I could recover a fair amount of the image post process, but isn't worth the effort for a shot that's so dark.

Overexposed.

Product photo fail. You would think that I could nail this shot every time, given how many times I've taken it over the past six years, but sometimes it still doesn't work out so well.

Another ridiculous angle.

It was the wrong time of day to nail this shot. There was way too much glare.

 

Don't be afraid to share your outtakes every once in a while. It makes everyone feel better.

photo outtakes

Welcome to another round up of photo outtakes. I think that it's really important to discuss the fact that I take a ton of photos to get a few gems. Also, while I keep improving my skills, I still make a lot of mistakes.

 One of the inevitable auto focus fails that shows up in just about every single set. And for those of you wondering where I was shooting in January that was so green, no, I didn't take it this past month, just finally got around to editing the set.

One of those deliberately blurry shots that failed.

Blurry mess. The background blends into the leaves in the foreground too much, making for a distracting composition.

Another blurry mess with too many highlights. I could save a lot of the shot post-process, but it isn't worth the effort because the shot isn't very interesting.

I thought that the close up details here would be more interesting.

Dizzying angle.

When I exported this out of Lightroom and into my outtakes folder, I titled it "don't even know," which is about right. The subject isn't interesting, the angle doesn't work, and the fluorescent light distracts from anything interesting that is there (which really isn't much so it doesn't even matter).

Another focus fail. Thankfully I did have some shots in this little set that turned out much better.

This shot wasn't a kitty-moving-and-blurring-the-shot fail, it was a human-not-using-manual-focus-properly fail.

Poor washed out kitty. I did get a shot that wasn't nearly as washed out, although the back lighting is still pretty harsh.

 

Don't be afraid to share your outtakes every once in a while. It makes everyone feel better.